DescriptionUS Federal Debt as Percent of GDP by President (1940 to 2015).png
English: A graph, created using Google Spreadsheets, depicting the U.S. federal debt from 1940 to 2014, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). Presidential terms of Democratic (blue) and Republican (red) presidents are shown. This is an improvement over the previous file (see below) for the following reason: the data now goes through 2014 (previous version was 2012) and all data comes from one dataset.
It is important to note a fundamental difference between this file's depiction and the previous file's depiction. This file depicts the transition between presidential terms as the year of inauguration while the previous file depicts the transition as the year that the previous president's budget policy is replaced by the new sitting president's budget policy. The first year of each presidential term which remains under the previous president's budget policy is no longer depicted. In other words, this new file depicts the transition to a new president one year before the new president's budget policy comes into effect.
Gross federal debt data and percentage of GDP are from [1], Table 7.1. Please note that the GDP%ages for all years seem to have changed. That's just an update from the original data source (the White House's historical data). Most of their historical data this year agrees with the historical data from last year (2013) but it seems to have been updated a bit from 2012's numbers.
Year Debt as % of GDP President Party
1940 51.6 Roosevelt Democrat
1941 49.5 Roosevelt Democrat
1942 53.6 Roosevelt Democrat
1943 77.3 Roosevelt Democrat
1944 95.5 Roosevelt Democrat
1945 114.9 Roosevelt Democrat
1946 118.9 Truman Democrat
1947 107.6 Truman Democrat
1948 96 Truman Democrat
1949 91.3 Truman Democrat
1950 92.1 Truman Democrat
1951 78 Truman Democrat
1952 72.5 Truman Democrat
1953 69.5 Eisenhower Republican
1954 69.9 Eisenhower Republican
1955 67.4 Eisenhower Republican
1956 62.1 Eisenhower Republican
1957 58.6 Eisenhower Republican
1958 59 Eisenhower Republican
1959 56.9 Eisenhower Republican
1960 54.3 Eisenhower Republican
1961 53.4 Kennedy Democrat
1962 51.6 Kennedy Democrat
1963 50.1 Kennedy Democrat
1964 47.7 Johnson Democrat
1965 45.4 Johnson Democrat
1966 42 Johnson Democrat
1967 40.6 Johnson Democrat
1968 41 Johnson Democrat
1969 37.2 Nixon Republican
1970 36.3 Nixon Republican
1971 36.5 Nixon Republican
1972 35.7 Nixon Republican
1973 34.4 Nixon Republican
1974 32.6 Nixon Republican
1975 33.6 Ford Republican
1976 35.1 Ford Republican
1977 34.8 Carter Democrat
1978 34.1 Carter Democrat
1979 32.3 Carter Democrat
1980 32.5 Carter Democrat
1981 31.7 Reagan Republican
1982 34.3 Reagan Republican
1983 38.7 Reagan Republican
1984 39.6 Reagan Republican
1985 42.6 Reagan Republican
1986 46.7 Reagan Republican
1987 49.1 Reagan Republican
1988 50.5 Reagan Republican
1989 51.5 Bush Republican
1990 54.2 Bush Republican
1991 58.9 Bush Republican
1992 62.2 Bush Republican
1993 64 Clinton Democrat
1994 64.5 Clinton Democrat
1995 64.9 Clinton Democrat
1996 64.9 Clinton Democrat
1997 63.3 Clinton Democrat
1998 61.2 Clinton Democrat
1999 58.9 Clinton Democrat
2000 55.5 Clinton Democrat
2001 54.6 Bush Republican
2002 57 Bush Republican
2003 59.7 Bush Republican
2004 60.8 Bush Republican
2005 61.3 Bush Republican
2006 61.8 Bush Republican
2007 62.5 Bush Republican
2008 67.7 Bush Republican
2009 82.4 Obama Democrat
2010 91.4 Obama Democrat
2011 96 Obama Democrat
2012 100.2 Obama Democrat
2013 100.8 Obama Democrat
2014 103.2 Obama Democrat
2015 101.8 Obama Democrat
2016 106.1 Obama Democrat
2017 estimate 104.4 Trump Republican
2018 estimate 103.7 Trump Republican
2019 estimate 103.2 Trump Republican
2020 estimate 102.4 Trump Republican
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